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Photographs : 1980 Photographs
Item type: PhotographsArchive reference: YMP/A/10
Date/year: 1980
Description: Photographs, transparencies and postcards from the 1980 Mystery Plays production, which was in Museum Gardens; Christopher Timothy played Christ.
![Setting the stage 1980 Setting the stage 1980](/uploads/mystery/mainsite/images/photos/setting-the-stage1980.jpg)
Here is the stage in the ruins of St Mary's Abbey.
Below, Cain (Alan Inglis) is angry with his brother Abel (John Ramsden). They are farmers of sheep, and have a real one with them on stage. It is a different breed from the ones used in the New Testament play further below.
![Cain and Abel 1980 Cain and Abel 1980](/uploads/mystery/mainsite/images/photos/1980Cain&Abel1.jpg)
![Three shepherds 1980 Three shepherds 1980](/uploads/mystery/mainsite/images/photos/Three-Shepherds1980.jpg)
Here are the three shepherds with live sheep, with angels in the heavens above and behind.
1st Shepherd: Michael A Brown
2nd Shepherd: Roger Farrington
3rd Shepherd: Thomas Zugic
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